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. . . starting with Canadian government boats, Coast Guard vessels and CCGS-to-be. Tor Viking is the Davie Shipyard near Quebec City in Lévis, where she’ll be transformed into CCGS Vincent Massey, a medium class icebreaker, following the wakes of sister ships into CCGS Molly Kool and CCGS Jean Goodwill. Another CCGS, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, recently left Labrador for the long trip to British Columbia.
CCGS Sipu Muin has appeared here before with photos from her first pass. Two days later she flew by even closer, determined to be seen. That gull off her starboard looks spooked….
In the distance with the large green dome, that’s Canada’s largest church.
How about a US vessel–USS Indianapolis LCS-17–commissioned in Indiana less than a month ago, here transiting Quebec near the downstream end of the Saint Lawrence Seaway? Here are my previous photos of LCS models . . . and others’ photos are here.
And let’s conclude with local sixth boro NYPD marine crew monitoring something
on a red channel marker in the lower portion of the Upper Bay yesterday.
The USS Indianapolis photo comes with permission from Marc Piché, whose photos have appeared here previously.
All other photos by Will Van Dorp, who posted about NYPD boats previously here.
A few days ago I posted this twilight view of Service Boat No. 1.
So, I hope she ‘s more defined by these shots from a bit later in the port of Montreal, as she passes Toronto Express.
Ocean Macareux (translates as “Ocean Puffin”) follows the grain elevators on her way to –maybe–
attach some rendering. . . .
Farther along, a spud barge moved by GFFM‘s
Vent Polaire (tr. Polar Wind) seems standing by, assisted by this very
shallow draft prime mover.
Over by the Beauharnois Dam, Deschenaux (tr. Channels) stands by.
Click here for more info on the Beauharnois generating station.
Anyone know where and when Deschenaux was built?
Farther upstream yet, in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, it’s Circle Polaire (tr. Polar Circle)
And closing out this post, Ocean A. Gauthier here heads downstream to assist Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin return to a floating condition. I believe she’s still undergoing repairs in the port of Johnstown ON.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here was “7” and 1 through 6.
This post will run photos from twilight to twilight…
Above and below, prosaically Service Boat No. 1 is doing pilot exchange duty. She’s not large or particularly powerful or new, but in twilight before dawn she looked and sounded formidable.
Ocean Basques, here approaching the Laviolette Bridge, is a solid 200 miles upstream of the islands with the same namesake.
Ocean Basques was built in Collingwood ON, as was Ocean Sept-Isles.
Quite unique and speedy, Ocean Catatug 1 raced downstream.
As afternoon falls, Ocean Bertrand Jeansonne follows Ocean Henry Bain out of the homeport basin.
That’s the marine traffic control tower on the other side in Levis QC.
Returning to another twilight shot, here’s Ocean Henry Bain pushing a deep barge down bound.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
As mid-autumn displays her beauty at the approach to the Beauharnois Canal in the Seaway, my excitement spiked upon seeing MV Sinaa.
Sister ship to Nunalik, Sinaa was certain to be carrying specialized cargo delivery gear. Here’s the rest of the NEAS fleet. NEAS expands to Nunavut Eastern Arctic Shipping. For the difference between Nunavut and Nunavik, click here. My first post with an NEAS vessel was here.
As we passed I saw I would not be disappointed.
The barges like Kangirsuk I and II and the small tugs–I can’t quite make out the names. Anyone help?–are lowered into the waters near the Arctic destination so that they can shuttle cargo ashore.
Pangnirtung I and II make up the rest of the discharging equipment.
I’m hoping someone can help with the names of the small tugs and any additional info about them. These NEAS tugs appeared previously on tugster here. For a post I did on Inuit language, click here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who might be in a wifi dead zone the next few days.
I’ll get back to pretty wooden boats, but first . . . what’s this? I missed its first pass, but the sound led me to check AIS, where I saw it was doing 33 kts . . .
Does Sipu Muin mean anything to you?
But here she is . . .CCGS Sipu Muin, an icebreaker/search&rescue hovercraft.
On her return she was doing 35 kts.
Her dimensions . . 93′ x 40, roughly. Click here for more info.
Click here for previous hovercraft on tugster. Here’s more on this 70-ton vessel.
All otitis by Will Van Dorp.
This Stella Polaris . . . a very common vessel name for obvious navigation reasons, is less than 400′ and about 20 years old. The curious building off the bow is the Boldt Castle Power House and Clock Tower . . . or BCPHCT.
Algoma Conveyor, SLSWmax, was still under construction a year ago in Jiangsu, China.
Narie is another recent Chinese built cargo ship
in the Great Lakes, I’ve read, for the first season, although other Polsteam boats have worked there for some years.
The oldest Great Lakes port in the US is Oswego, and it sees lakers like the Japan-built cement ship NACC Argonaut fairly frequently.
With the right vessel, one can travel from the Great Lakes directly to NYC, of course, and when we did, we ran into Disney Magic, Italian built, Bahamian flagged, and Spain overhauled.
Making this likely the most diverse “random ships” post ever, here’s P61, an Irish patrol vessel named for Samuel Beckett. Unless I’m mistaken, this “writers” class comprises the largest vessels in the Irish Naval Service. Here’s a photo of Beckett leaving town yesterday taken by frequent commenter Phil Gilson.
Cembay is another Japan built cement carrier, 1997, shuttling between the US and Port Daniel QC.
And finally . . . YM World is, as of this posting, steaming toward Savannah, after shifting boxes here in Bayonne.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp within the past 30 days.
It’s another day of mostly but not entirely pics.
See the tags for names.
Nunalik began life in 2009 as Beluga Fairy. I love these names.
Nunalik is one of the NEAS fleet serving Canada’s north country. It is Inuit owned.
Therefore, it’s name is written in Inuktitut.
Sedna is also a name associated with the north.
The port of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield has a lot of Arctic-destined products.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has wifi only when he has wifi.
Let’s record some of the ships along the same stretch as yesterday’s post did for tug boats, and the names are in the tags.
Nordic Barents was discharging iron ore for the Contrecoeur, although I don’t know the provenance of the ore.
The oil port is certainly concentrated.
I took Happy Buccaneer to be an almost new vessel . . . little would I have thought it was built in 1984!!
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Mostly photos, and all taken between Quebec City and Montreal. Ocean Charlie is a great name.
Ocean Henry Bain moves a barge, possibly from a passenger terminal.
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Ocean Intrepide hangs at East Montreal.
But here in the South Shore Canal . . . the outlier . . .
Mary E. Hannah is way from out of the area.
And finally . . . in Valleyfield, it’s Cercle Polaire of GFFM.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who posts when possible these days.
Ferries cross the entrance to the Saguenay River, a truly magical place. Do visit if you can.
Weather appears to vary with turns around capes on the river.
Farms even stitch themselves into the valleys.
Rain intensifies beyond each point until
just when you think it’ll snow, sunny slopes appear.
We wind past islands . . .
and follow those who play in the breezes channeled by geology.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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